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Jeremy Bonderman is no more a Mariner, having just been designated for assignment. Taking his roster spot for the time being is reliever Lucas Luetge, but he, or someone else from the bullpen, is sure to go shortly for Bonderman’s rotation replacement. Erasmo Ramirez is the obvious choice, but I suppose there are other feasible options like returning Blake Beavan to a starting role.

I was at Bonderman’s last home start, Sunday versus the Cubs. I haven’t attended many games this season, but somehow that one felt very typical of the 2013 Mariners. The Mariners, including Ibanez, hit some dingers, but three home runs directly resulted in only four runs scored and the Mariners batted 1-for-14 with runners in scoring position while the Cubs went 5-for-11. I ended up spending a decent amount of the middle innings just wandering around the stadium as the Mariners were getting worked over by Edwin Jackson. In the end, they made it exciting, but in the end, they also lost. It was a very fitting game.

Batter

PA

P/PA

Slash line

nBB

K (sw)

1B/2B/3B/HR

Sw-

Ct+

Qual+

K Seager*

51

4.0

.311/.373/.622

5

8 (7)

8 / 2 / 0 / 4

95

111

141

R Ibanez*

45

4.0

.341/.435/.707

4

8 (7)

8 / 1 / 1 / 4

90

97

128

N Franklin^

45

3.7

.295/.311/.477

1

12 (10)

9 / 2 / 0 / 2

103

99

129

K Morales^

44

3.7

.250/.318/.450

4

10 (9)

6 / 2 / 0 / 2

108

92

120

E Chavez*

43

3.4

.205/.295/.256

4

4 (4)

6 / 2 / 0 / 0

99

101

105

M Zunino

38

3.2

.189/.237/.216

1

7 (5)

6 / 1 / 0 / 0

118

91

93

J Smoak^

37

4.2

.333/.447/.667

4

10 (6)

6 / 2 / 0 / 3

91

105

150

B Miller*

35

3.9

.200/.314/.400

5

9 (9)

2 / 2 / 2 / 0

111

97

117

D Ackley*

29

3.9

.185/.241/.259

2

6 (4)

3 / 2 / 0 / 0

101

95

94

J Bay

22

4.3

.222/.391/.722

4

5 (3)

1 / 0 / 0 / 3

65

90

130

Raul Ibanez continues to rake home runs. It’s comical at this point how effective of a hitting season he’s had and less comical how expectedly bad of a fielding season he’s had. I doubt anyone reading this believes it, but I do know that there are people out there who legitimately feel that “we” would “rather be right” about Ibanez than see the Mariners win because he does well. That’s ludicrous and a line of thought that I find reflects remarkably poorly on the opinion-haver. It’s not new, one way or another it gets hurled at us from time to time with the exact subject changing over the years. It’s completely wrong.

To be blunt, I want the Mariners to win. That’s priority one through like seventeen. I don’t even particularly care how they go about winning. Okay? Full stop.

Now, I, through my research and analysis of baseball, have my theories about how a team is best assembled for sustained winning. Therefore, I disagree with the Mariners when they make moves contrary to those theories. And I don’t want a bad process to become entrenched because of random success. That is not the same as rooting for the team to lose nor is it the same as wanting to be proven right above all else. If given the choice, I want the Mariners to succeed by doing the sorts of things I think are best. If not given that choice, I just want the Mariners to succeed.

Batter

PA

P/PA

Slash line

nBB

SO (sw)

1B/2B/3B/HR

Sw-

Ct+

Qual+

J Ellsbury*

56

3.5

.373/.429/.490

5

5 (5)

15 / 3 / 0 / 1

101

111

72

D Pedroia

54

4.1

.383/.444/.574

6

6 (5)

12 / 4 / 1 / 1

87

112

138

S Victorino^

49

3.9

.286/.306/.449

0

9 (8)

7 / 6 / 1 / 0

101

105

101

J Iglesias

47

3.7

.318/.362/.364

3

5 (3)

12 / 2 / 0 / 0

98

115

67

M Napoli

45

4.6

.237/.356/.342

7

15 (13)

7 / 1 / 0 / 1

88

92

107

D Nava^

43

4.1

.415/.419/.488

1

9 (5)

14 / 3 / 0 / 0

88

106

99

D Ortiz*

41

4.3

.297/.457/.486

4

8 (7)

6 / 4 / 0 / 1

100

104

131

J Saltalamacchia^

38

4.1

.303/.410/.424

5

14 (13)

6 / 4 / 0 / 0

98

81

140

B Snyder

22

4.0

.273/.273/.500

0

6 (6)

3 / 2 / 0 / 1

117

89

133

J Gomes

20

4.1

.421/.500/.737

1

3 (2)

4 / 3 / 0 / 1

91

107

125

MARINERS

ΔMs

RED SOX

EDGE

INFIELD

-3.1 (17th)

-0.7

13.6 (8th)

Red Sox

OUTFIELD

-11.1 (23rd)

3.4

16.4 (7th)

Red Sox

RBBIP

0.315 (21st)

-.001

0.292 (2nd)

Red Sox

OVERALL

-14.2 (24th)

2.6

30.0 (2nd)

RED SOX

08 JUL 19:10 – FELIX HERNANDEZ vs JON LESTER*

09 JUL 19:10 – HISASHI IWAKUMA vs ALLEN WEBSTER

Webster is new, having made only five starts thus far. He mixes his pitches well and is running a fantastically low contact rate, but you’ll see, so is his strike rate.

10 JUL 19:10 – AARON HARANG vs FELIX DOUBRONT*

11 JUL 12:40 – TBA vs RYAN DEMPSTER

Reliever

BF

Str+

nBB

Ct-

K(sw)

GB+

HR

Qual-

LI

B Beavan

46

115

2

111

7 (6)

80

2

128

0.4

D Farquhar

45

105

3

93

12 (9)

98

2

103

1.2

T Wilhelmsen

42

103

2

105

7 (4)

82

2

107

1.7

C Furbush*

42

105

2

91

15 (12)

100

0

110

1.3

Y Medina

41

99

3

98

10 (9)

129

0

113

2.2

C Capps

35

102

2

105

6 (5)

84

4

124

0.6

O Perez*

33

110

2

78

14 (10)

49

1

74

2.0

Reliever

BF

Str+

nBB

Ct-

K(sw)

GB+

HR

Qual-

LI

C Breslow*

51

107

2

112

8 (4)

77

2

117

1.3

J Tazawa

50

105

3

97

10 (9)

55

2

109

1.4

K Uehara

47

119

2

92

19 (16)

104

1

94

1.6

A Miller*

44

107

6

95

13 (9)

123

1

88

1.5

A Wilson

40

102

4

100

6 (5)

45

0

105

1.2

A Bailey

37

98

5

102

9 (7)

103

5

128

2.7

F Morales*

31

99

4

89

9 (9)

75

1

127

0.9

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